Benefits to Alaska
Education
- Bring the world into the classroom over video conferencing.
- Take students on virtual field trips to distant universities, museums, fascinating cultures, and even outer space.
- Allow teachers and administrators to attend regional meetings without leaving their villages.
HealthCare
- Use video conferencing to bring urban doctors and rural villages together face-to-face as if in a single examination room.
- Relay information from telemedicine carts to remote doctors for quick reviews and diagnoses.
- Reduce travel expenses, while increasing patient care.
Public safety
- Provide better connectivity for first-responders.
- Increase coverage of cell service outside of villages on new microwave towers.
- Improve safety for subsistence hunters and travelers through expanded range of search and rescue public safety radios.
Economic development
- Provide true broadband for residential and small business users at urban-equivalent prices.
- Create new economic and job opportunities through network construction and operation.
- Open access to education and training opportunities.